That conclusion -- first reported by Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin and laid out in a secret cable from the US consul general in Istanbul -- contradicts preliminary estimates made by American officials in the hours after the 23 December strike »

The Israel Defence Forces didn't just kill Hamas military leader Ahmed al-Jabari on 14 November as he was driving his car down the street in Gaza. They killed him and then instantly posted the strike to YouTube »

When the New York Army National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment was left without power or hot waterthe Regiment's officers made an emergency plea -- to the producers of the Victoria's Secret fashion show »

A top-secret base in Taiwan, revealed on Apple Maps; the Navy SEALs' rehearsal site for the Osama bin Laden raid, found on Bing -- once again, commercial satellites have snapped images of things that governments would rather hide from public view »

Palm-sized sensors, developed for the American military, will remain littered across the Afghan countryside -- detecting anyone who moves nearby and reporting their locations back to a remote headquarters »